lol. I'm dying at the idea of Hotch giving birth to the team. ahahhaaa! He'd be totally emo about it, too, which makes it even funnier.
But! I do love the team dynamics. It's such a great example of how a team should function, with each person filling their role in a way that complements the others. They provide emotional support for each other when needed and stand back when needed. And I think it lessens the import of what they do have – a perfect team, which is really, really rare, despite what TV likes to tell us – to say that if they are that close, then they are automatically a family. As I said, I go back and forth on whether I see them that way or not, but even though it's a viewpoint I can get behind, I actually resent it a little when the show tries to actively push the idea of the team as family on me. (It's the same reason I don't want them to get too much into Hotch's backstory. The writers can be very ham-fisted on occasion; I'd rather they just didn't touch it.) For some of them at least, they already have a family. And that's not the same as “team.”
I genuinely believe that if Hotch had to choose between Jack and Morgan/Prentiss/Rossi/Reid, or if JJ had to choose between Henry and Morgan/Prentiss/Rossi/Reid, or if Morgan had to choose between one of his sisters or JJ/Prentiss/Rossi/Reid, they would choose their actual family member every time. (Of course, being the people they are, and because this is TV, they'd come up with a way to save everyone, so it's a moot point. But still.) That's the way it should be, and that's the way any of the team would want it to be. Would Morgan really expect Hotch to save his life over his son's? Of course not. Those relationships aren't equal. That doesn't make the team less important, it just makes them not family.
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Date: Jan. 10th, 2012 11:11 pm (UTC)But! I do love the team dynamics. It's such a great example of how a team should function, with each person filling their role in a way that complements the others. They provide emotional support for each other when needed and stand back when needed. And I think it lessens the import of what they do have – a perfect team, which is really, really rare, despite what TV likes to tell us – to say that if they are that close, then they are automatically a family. As I said, I go back and forth on whether I see them that way or not, but even though it's a viewpoint I can get behind, I actually resent it a little when the show tries to actively push the idea of the team as family on me. (It's the same reason I don't want them to get too much into Hotch's backstory. The writers can be very ham-fisted on occasion; I'd rather they just didn't touch it.) For some of them at least, they already have a family. And that's not the same as “team.”
I genuinely believe that if Hotch had to choose between Jack and Morgan/Prentiss/Rossi/Reid, or if JJ had to choose between Henry and Morgan/Prentiss/Rossi/Reid, or if Morgan had to choose between one of his sisters or JJ/Prentiss/Rossi/Reid, they would choose their actual family member every time. (Of course, being the people they are, and because this is TV, they'd come up with a way to save everyone, so it's a moot point. But still.) That's the way it should be, and that's the way any of the team would want it to be. Would Morgan really expect Hotch to save his life over his son's? Of course not. Those relationships aren't equal. That doesn't make the team less important, it just makes them not family.